Blue Truck, Red State: RIP: Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018

Thursday, August 16, 2018

RIP: Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018

Your Head Trucker played the wires off this 1968 album.

America mourns the loss of a national treasure: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died earlier today at her home in Detroit, aged 76.

2 comments:

Davis said...: She belongs to all of us.; August 19, 2018 at 2:54 PM
Russ Manley said...: One of the greats.; August 20, 2018 at 3:58 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu